Critical Live Boot Bug Fixed and Ubuntu 18.04 is Finally Released

A critical bug in live boot session delayed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release for several hours. The bug has been fixed and the ISO are available to download.

Nintendo Switch hack + Dolphin Emulator could bring GameCube and Wii game support

This week security researchers released details about a vulnerability affecting NVIDIA Tegra X1 processors that makes it possible to bypass secure boot and run unverified code on some devices… including every Nintendo Switch game console that’s shipped to date. Among other things, this opens the door for running modified versions of Nintendo’s firmware, or alternate operating systems such as a GNU/Linux distribution. And if you can run Linux… you can also run Linux applications. Now it looks like one of those applications could be the Dolphin emulator, which lets you play Nintendo GameCube and Wii games on a computer or other supported devices.

Openwashing Leftovers

• We pick a storage CTO's brains on Linux-heads, big vendors – and should all the admins NVMe? [Ed: Cloudwashing and marketing in 'interview' form]

  He became VP for engineering product strategy at Cavium-owned QLogic in 2014, moving on to be the CTO in late 2014, and then CTO for Ethernet and Fibre Channel Adapters in 2016, leaving for semi-retirement at the end of 2017.

• How open source Ceph compares to commercial Ceph products [Ed: Well, “open source” and “commercial” are not opposites. He means proprietary, not commercial.]

  Ceph software-defined storage is available for free, thanks to its open source nature. However, in some situations, a commercial Ceph product could be the way to go.

• Audi puts open source big data foundations in place for car usage data [Ed: Audi calls surveillance "open source" or "big data". The kind of openwashing that insults FOSS.]

• Microsoft’s C++ library manager now available for Linux and macOS [Ed: Proprietary trap for GNU/Linux from the company that blackmails GNU/Linux vendors and bribes officials/executives to not use GNU/Linux]

• Percona Delivers First, Free, Open Source Method of Centralized Key Management for MySQL

• Apple Open Sources FoundationDB, a Distributed Datastore

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